100% agreed about life-lists -- especially your closing sentence -- but I thought it odd, as a fellow geek, how this juxtaposes to the incredible, amazing importance of bug/issue/feature databases, which are really just an institutional to-do list.
No big point, I just thought it was interesting enough to share.

What do you need to do today? Other than read this blog entry, I mean. Have you ever noticed that a huge percentage of Lifehacker-like productivity porn site content is a breathless description of the details of Yet Another To-Do Application? There are dozens upon dozens of the things to choo...

Tom DeMarco has a great book on this subject: _Slack_ (NADA.) It's thin -- 200 pages-ish -- and I typically keep a few copies around to give to people who "need" them. I'd offer you one, but you strike me as the kind of guy who might do the same thing.
Still, ping me if you want me to send you one. :)

When you're hired at Google, you only have to do the job you were hired for 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time, you can work on whatever you like – provided it advances Google in some way. At least, that's the theory. Google's 20 percent time policy is well known in software engineeri...

"Well, first off, it's incredibly strange that the first sample – encoded at a mere 160kbps – does better on average than everything else. I think it's got to be bias from appearing first in the list of audio samples. It's kind of an outlier here for no good reason, so we have to almost throw it out."
You probably know this, now, but it's fairly common in this sort of "blind taste test" thing to not always offer the same product 1st, to "shuffle the deck" between survey takers. Even for in-person tests, there's a bias if you always serve the Coke first, then the Pepsi, or vice versa.

And now for the dramatic conclusion to The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment you've all been waiting for! The actual bitrates of each audio sample are revealed below, along with how many times each was clicked per the goo.gl URL shortener stats between Thursday, June 21st and Tuesday, June 26th. ...

Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the...

I recently started something like this. I've always loved stair climbers, and do bought one and try to use it nearly every day. The trick is to "waste time" while climbing, so the minutes just fly by. Playing civilization or uniwar on the iPad, or surfing the web (blog reading!) are great for this. All of a sudden, it's like "ding!" whoop?! My 45 minutes are up?!?!
Catch up on email during my cool-down, hit the showers and come out with a brain full of oxygen and get to work. It's GREAT!

Software developers aren't typically known for their superior levels of physical fitness. I'm not overweight, exactly, but I don't think I'll be pursuing that dream career in male modelling anytime soon. I charitably call myself an indoor enthusiast. At the risk of generalizing-- yes, I know...